For hiring leaders and HR executives
The right leader, found the right way, before your competitors find them first.
You already know your open role. What you need is the person who isn't looking, the one still doing great work for someone else, quietly open to the right conversation. That's who we bring you.
We recruit, refer and place candidates without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other status protected by applicable law. Every search we run reflects that standard.
The value of working with a dedicated search partner
Job boards fill roles people apply to. They do not fill the roles that matter most: the ones where the ideal candidate isn't applying to anything, because they are not looking. In a tight, competitive labour market, that describes most of the leaders and specialists you actually want.
Dan Rodriguez has spent 23 years recruiting inside the industries that keep the country running: higher education leadership, engineering and operations talent in construction and manufacturing, finance and accounting, physicians and clinicians in healthcare, and leaders across consumer packaged goods. That depth means we are not learning your industry while working your search. We already know who the strong performers are, where they sit today, and what it takes to earn a conversation with them.
Practice areas
We don't try to be everything to everyone. We recruit deeply in the industries where relationships and reputation open doors a general job posting never will.
Higher education leadership
Provosts, deans, vice presidents and senior administrators for colleges and universities.
Engineering for construction and manufacturing
Project executives, plant leadership and technical engineering talent that keeps builds and plants running.
Finance and accounting
Controllers, FP&A leaders, CFOs and accounting professionals who protect the numbers your board relies on.
Healthcare and medical clinicians
Physicians, advanced practice providers and clinical leadership for hospitals and health systems.
Consumer packaged goods
Commercial, operations and supply chain leaders for CPG manufacturers and brands.
Is your search here?
If your opening sits outside these lanes, tell us about it. We will be direct about whether we're the right fit.
How we're different from posting a job
We recruit specialists, not résumés
Anyone can collect applications. Our work starts with the people who never apply anywhere: the strong performer three years into a role, quietly building a track record, who isn't scrolling job boards on a Tuesday night. Reaching that person takes a direct, informed, respectful conversation, not an algorithm.
The pitfall of relying on postings alone
Posting a role online reaches whoever happens to be looking that week. It is fast, it is inexpensive, and it is also exactly why so many searches drag on for months or land a candidate who isn't quite right. Volume is not the same as fit. We would rather bring you three people who are genuinely right than thirty who technically applied.
Before we ever send you a candidate
Every candidate we present has been personally vetted: background, motivations, compensation expectations and career trajectory reviewed before your calendar is ever touched. We protect your time by doing the filtering up front, so every conversation you take is one worth taking.
What you get when you partner with us
- A recruiter who already understands your industry's compensation landscape, talent pool and competitive pressures.
- Confidential handling of sensitive searches, including replacing someone currently in the role.
- Direct outreach to passive, currently-employed professionals who aren't visible on any job board.
- A single point of contact who stays engaged through offer, negotiation and onboarding, not just the introduction.
Our commitment to you
We are paid on placement. If we do not fill the role, there is no fee.
We stay involved after the offer is signed, because a placement isn't finished until the new hire is succeeding in the role.